Australia’s Response to Climate Change One of the Worst in G20, According to New Report | Australia’s poor performance can be attributed to poor leadership, and the unwillingness of politicians to acknowledge the urgency or even existence of the escalating climate crisis.
https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/8xwjmx/australias-climate-change-response-one-of-worst-in-g20-according-to-new-report
A deadly virus that's killing key marine species | Melting Arctic sea ice has opened new pathways for Arctic and sub-Arctic species to interact, and that contact has introduced a potentially deadly virus to mammals in the Northern Pacific Ocean - study
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/us/climate-change-deadly-virus-trnd/index.html
Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter will be joined by Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today in Washington to introduce legislation that condemns the Turkish government’s abuse of counterterrorism authorities to target political rivals.
https://twitter.com/MattLangone/status/1194258014120923137?s=19
Supreme Court will allow Sandy Hook families to move forward in suit against gunmaker Remington
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/12/supreme-court-sandy-hook-remington-guns.html
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/supreme-court-clears-newtown-shooting-victim-families-sue/story?id=66938614
U.S. Illegally Held Nearly 70,000 Latin American Children In Detention 2019
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-family-separations-migrant-children-detained-2019_n_5dcaadece4b0fcfb7f6cd4d5
National Security Officials Unanimously Objected to Stopping Ukraine Aid
https://time.com/5724474/national-security-official-ukraine-aid-transcripts-laura-cooper/
A Democratic group unveiled a $3 million advertising campaign Tuesday featuring people who supported President Trump but now regret it, the first wave of a yearlong effort to reclaim some of the voters in the industrial Midwest who helped tip the 2016 election. The group, American Bridge, will air commercials in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania that are first-person testimonials from residents of each state explaining why they backed Mr. Trump in 2016 and why they will not do so again next year. While it’s not uncommon to spotlight voters in political advertising, these commercials feature no narration and are set, documentary-style, in the homes and towns of those on camera. “We want to create a permission structure in these communities,” said Bradley Beychok, the president of American Bridge. “We want them to know, ‘It wasn’t just me.’ But you have to create space for people to defect.” The voters featured in the commercials all focus on Mr. Trump’s record, and what they say is his self-focus and lack of accomplishments in their communities, while avoiding issues that often consume Washington, like impeachment or Mr. Trump’s inflammatory language. Speaking in personal terms, they acknowledge that they supported the president because they thought that, as a political outsider, he would be a more effective change agent than the elected officials who won the White House every four years, until him. | The advertising campaign, which will include broadcast television, radio and online spots, comes at a moment when many Democrats have been expressing alarm that Mr. Trump’s heavy campaign spending on digital ads has been all but uncontested. But now, as the Democratic presidential primary appears as uncertain as ever, a handful of liberal groups are working to match the president’s re-election efforts. | The commercials are plainly aimed at the white working-class voters who supported former President Barack Obama’s campaigns but shifted to Mr. Trump in 2016. It’s a constituency that is increasingly aligned with Republicans, leading some Democrats to question whether it’s worth the effort needed to win them back. But officials at American Bridge say they need to make only modest inroads with these voters to take back the Midwestern states they lost. “We don’t necessarily think we can flip back all the Obama-to-Trump counties, but we do feel we can drive his margin down in them,” said David Brock, the group's chairman and co-founder.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/swing-state-trump-regrets.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyiOnMBQRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwhB0D4KUg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VB6uE4ERoM
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/us/politics/democratic-political-campaign-advertising.html
Turkey’s proxy army ‘looting, kidnapping and executing Kurds at random’ in north Syria ‘safe zone’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/turkey-syria-national-army-kurds-safe-zone-human-rights-abuse-looting-kidnap-executions-a9198311.html
Nikki Haley on NBC just now insisting Trump is a “truthful” president and tougher on Russia than any previous president. She appears to be all in.
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1194229067488333826
Remember how shitstain leftists literally treated Haley like the coming of Jesus because she agreed to remove the confederate flag from the state capitol in South Carolina.
Stephen Miller shared articles from VDARE, a vile white nationalist website. He recommended The Camp of the Saints, a book that promotes the white genocide theory. That really tells you everything you need to know about the roots of his ideology.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/11/12/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails
There’s a Surprisingly Plausible Path to Removing Trump From Office - It would take just three Republican senators to turn the impeachment vote into a secret ballot. It’s not hard to imagine what would happen then.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/11/12/path-to-removing-donald-trump-from-office-229911
The Labour Party has suffered a 'sophisticated and large-scale cyber-attack' aheads of the general election | The UK general election is due to take place on December 12.
https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-general-election-labour-suffers-large-scale-cyber-attack-2019-11
Mick Mulvaney attorneys told a federal judge he's planning to illegally obey the White House and Justice Department's illegal direction not to testify: The decision was the latest twist in an odd subplot in the impeachment drama. While other current administration officials have either obeyed the president’s order not to cooperate with the House or defied Mr. Trump and testified anyway, Mr. Mulvaney had sought a third route by seeking to join an existing lawsuit asking a court what he should do. The plaintiff in that existing lawsuit, Charles M. Kupperman, a former deputy to John R. Bolton when he was the president’s national security adviser, wanted nothing to do with Mr. Mulvaney and fought his attempt to be added to the litigation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/mulvaney-impeachment-subpoena.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/09/us/politics/mulvaney-trump-impeachment-subpoenas.html
Bolton said Trump could go full isolationist — with the faction of the Republican Party that aligns with Paul’s foreign policy views taking over the GOP — and could withdraw the U.S. from NATO and other international alliances, three people present for his remarks said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/private-speech-bolton-suggests-some-trump-s-foreign-policy-decisions-n1080651
For all the talk of a Sun Belt strategy, it's worth noting that AZ (for example) "opposes single-payer health care by a wider margin than any other state."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/upshot/democratic-polls-battleground-states.html
Congressional Republicans are sticking with their party leader in the face of thousands of pages of evidence showing President Trump leveraged foreign policy for political favors, raising the possibility that not a single House Republican will vote for his impeachment. As they prepare to hold the first open impeachment hearings this week, Democrats had hoped to peel off Republican support from a key bloc — retiring lawmakers who need not worry about internal blowback or primary challenges. Yet many are refusing to break with Trump. Another moderate Republican, Rep. Will Hurd of Texas, sounded like a Trump ally on a Sunday morning talk show as he called for Hunter Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden, to testify in the impeachment inquiry — an idea being pushed by the White House that concerns some conservative Senate Republicans. Hunter Biden worked on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-shrug-off-growing-evidence-stand-with-trump-against-impeachment/2019/11/11/c325f824-04a5-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html
Days after being fined for misusing veterans' funds, Trump urges people to celebrate Veterans' Day by donating to his campaign
https://theweek.com/speedreads/877791/days-after-being-fined-misusing-veterans-funds-trump-urges-people-celebrate-veterans-day-by-donating-campaign
Since Republicans want Hunter Biden to testify, Democrats should call Ivanka Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/opinions/republicans-want-to-call-hunter-biden-democrats-should-call-ivanka-trump-obeidallah/index.html
THANKS BERNIE SANDERS: Mitch McConnell Is About to Steamroll Democrats with Another 30 Conservative Judges By the End of the Year
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/zmj9bw/mitch-mcconnell-is-about-to-steamroll-democrats-with-another-30-conservative-judges-before-the-end-of-the-year
Having spent 4 years falsely claiming that the DNC rigged the primaries, Bernie bros all over twitter and the rest of the internet are defending blatant election rigging in Bolivia.
To Exonerate Trump, Republicans Embrace Russian Disinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/11/opinion/republicans-trump-impeachment-hearings.html
Trump praised Sean Spicer on his 'Dancing with the Stars' performance, then deleted his tweet when he got eliminated
https://www.businessinsider.com/sean-spicer-dancing-with-the-stars-trump-delete-tweet-praise-2019-
At least eight former White House, presidential transition and campaign officials for Trump were hired as outside contractors to the federal health department at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, according to docs obtained by Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/federal-health-funneled-dollars-trump-allies-069638
The call is murky, it is really murky. I don’t like for the president of the United States to mention an American citizen for investigation to a foreign leader. I think that is out of bounds. -Susan Rice
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-condoleezza/former-u-s-top-diplomat-rice-concerned-by-shadow-diplomacy-on-ukraine-idUSKBN1XL2A7
Angry over sanction threat, #Erdogan threatened today EU with unleashing captive #ISIS terrorists in #Turkey and #Syria as well as 4 million refugees to Europe, said EU may take this threat lightly but he said it before and means it, he will open the door for ISIS.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1194169922097700864
A Shocking Number Of Americans Know Someone Who Died Due To Unaffordable Care — The high costs of the U.S. health care system are killing people, a new survey concludes.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/many-americans-know-someone-who-died-unaffordable-health-care_n_5dc9cfc6e4b00927b2380eb7
Warren proposes 'corporate perjury' law related to industry-funded research
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren-anticorruption/warren-proposes-corporate-perjury-law-related-to-industry-funded-research-idUSKBN1XM1TU
Donald Trump's company is to pay the Scottish Government £225,000 to cover its legal bills after the US president's firm was defeated in a long-running and acrimonious court battle over a windfarm development near his inaugural Scottish golf resort.
https://www.scotsman.com/news/donald-trump-s-firm-to-pay-225-000-to-scottish-government-to-cover-legal-bills-1-5044290
Senior Trump official lied on resume, had face on fake TIME cover | An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements — like claiming, falsely, to be a Harvard grad — and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit's work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1080356
If you go to her non-profit, you can see that it's all about her -- so many photos of her. And if you click on the non-profit's facebook page, it's just her personal page where she has multiple posts about how good her little brother is as a musician and that labels should be signing him. Oooops she turned the page private.
“Stormfront Radio” has been re-branded as “The Morning Aloha Report,” crediting Tulsi Gabbard for the inspiration
https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1194300473219649536?s=21
Trump now attending $10,000 per person fundraiser for America First Action Super PAC, expected to raise $4-million in support of his re-election. No press coverage. By my count, it's the 90th fundraiser Pres Trump has attended since taking office of which 75 closed to press.
https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/1194329200892743685
Giuliani and The Hill actively pursued a deal to create a podcast together, with Solomon acting as an intermediary, according to emails obtained by ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/giuliani-was-close-to-a-podcast-deal-with-the-news-outlet-that-spread-his-ukraine-conspiracies
While Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh appeared likely to say DACA was properly shut down, Chief Justice John Roberts did not seem to be as strongly convinced.
https://twitter.com/PeteWilliamsNBC/status/1194334807427145728
Trump Has Considered Firing Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, whom he appointed, for finding the anonymous whistle-blower’s complaint on his interactions with Ukraine to be credible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/trump-michael-atkinson-inspector-general.html
Rep. Mike Quigley on the Trump-Zelensky call: "If there was nothing wrong with it, why did they try so hard not to have anybody testify? Why have they obstructed this investigation?"
The US Navy canceled a routine Black Sea patrol after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-navy-canceled-patrol-trump-said-it-was-hostile-russia-2019-11
By definition, people in DACA have never been convicted of a crime
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1194219655717642240
American prosecutors plan to expand their long-running fraud case against 13 Russians, including an oligarch known as “Putin’s chef,” accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, court records show. The government said Tuesday in court documents that it will file a superseding indictment to add to the charge of conspiring to interfere with a campaign finance rule banning certain expenditures by foreign nationals.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-12/u-s-to-expand-mueller-election-fraud-case-against-13-russians
Steve Bannon: I disagree with her ideologically, but I think Nancy Pelosi is a master at political warfare. I think, strategically, what she has done from their perspective is actually quite brilliant
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-impeachment-inquiry-steve-bannon-says-pelosis-strategy-is-actually-quite-brilliant/
New evidence shows contact between Trump official and Republican redistricting expert over census citizenship question, contradicting earlier DOJ claims | The documents, released Tuesday by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, show text messages about the question between transition team member Mark Neuman and the strategist, Thomas Hofeller, in the summer of 2017, at a time when other evidence shows administration members were actively discussing how the question might be added to the survey. A Justice Department spokesman in May flatly denied allegations of contact between Hofeller and the administration. The spokesman also had said an unpublished study by Hofeller from 2015 showing the question would benefit Republicans and whites had “played no role” in the administration’s push to add the question.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/new-evidence-shows-contact-between-trump-official-and-republican-redistricting-expert-over-census-citizenship-question-contradicting-earlier-doj-claims/2019/11/12/95bb97f4-0577-11ea-ac12-3325d49eacaa_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/despite-trump-administration-denials-new-evidence-suggests-census-citizenship-question-was-crafted-to-benefit-white-republicans/2019/05/30/ca188dea-82eb-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html
House Democrats will hold additional public hearings on Tuesday, November 19, Wednesday, November 20, and Thursday, November 21. Witnesses next week will be Jennifer Williams, Alexander Vindman, Kurt Volker, Timothy Morrison, Gordon Sondland, Laura Cooper, David Hale and Fiona Hill.
Roger Stone won't testify as defense prepares to rest case
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/470104-roger-stone-wont-testify-as-trial-begins-to-wrap-up
U.S. military imagery shows possible atrocities by Turkish-backed forces in Syria
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-military-imagery-shows-possible-atrocities-by-turkish-backed-forces-in-syria/2019/11/12/08d7d760-0565-11ea-a5e2-fccc16fa3576_story.html
Minnesota Twins Manager Rocco Baldelli Has Been Named The American League Manager Of The Year. All these people talking about the Boone snub which I get but what about Cash? Took the second lowest payroll in baseball to the playoffs while sustaining injuries to Glasnow and Snell while revolutionizing the game. All three of these managers deserved to win.
Groypers are trying to drag antisemitic and homophobic shitposting off of 4chan and into real life. They're crashing Q+As of pro-Trump conservatives to try to put overt bigotry back on the table for 2020.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pro-trump-conservatives-are-getting-trolled-real-life-far-right-n1080986
Foundations of Geopolitics - Published in 1997 on how to disrupt the world in Russias favor. The textbook advocates a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Note this from the book:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".
Any of those strategies look familiar?
A federal regulator has opened an inquiry into Google and Ascension’s ‘Project Nightingale’ amassing the detailed health information of millions of patients.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-googles-project-nightingale-a-health-data-gold-mine-of-50-million-patients-11573571867
Werner!
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/werner-herzog-the-mandalorian-star-wars-jon-favreau-disney-plus-1203400810/
A vote on proposed amendments to the Puerto Rico Civil Code that would rescind LGBTQ rights has been delayed.
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/11/12/vote-on-proposed-changes-to-puerto-rico-civil-code-delayed/
Mick Mulvaney is isolated, marginalized and growing more irrelevant to the West Wing staff he’s meant to lead during one of the most consequential moments of the Trump presidency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/12/mulvaney-impeachment-hearings-070342
A Court Ruling Ending DACA Might Not Be a Good Thing for Trump | It could mean news coverage of the government trying to deport thousands of young immigrants in the midst of what is certain to be a difficult re-election battle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/us/politics/supreme-court-daca-trump.html
Jared Kushner and other senior Trump administration officials are planning to set up web cameras to live-stream construction of Trump’s border wall, going against objections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and senior U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials, according to four people familiar with the White House proposal. “There will be a wall cam, and it’ll launch early next year,” said a senior White House official involved in the initiative, which aims to rally public support for hundreds of miles of new border barrier Trump wants in place by next year’s election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/white-house-to-use-webcams-to-create-live-feed-of-border-wall-construction/2019/11/12/4014ce26-057a-11ea-a5e2-fccc16fa3576_story.html
On April 30, 2018 at Trump Hotel:
—in a back room, Parnas/Fruman lobby POTUS to fire his own ambassador
—at front desk, @johnlegere & 8 other T-mobile execs check in to lobby for their merger
In one night, Foreign & Domestic policy decisions both turn into cash for POTUS.
https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1194432414900076545
It all happened at...the Trump hotel! Coincidentally, on the same night in April 2018 that 9 @tmobile executives all showed up to start their spending binge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-place-i-feel-very-comfortable-t-mobile-executives-seeking-government-approval-for-merger-stayed-at-trumps-hotel-repeatedly/2019/01/15/6a114d3e-142c-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
At a donor dinner in April 2018, Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said he and Igor Fruman told Trump that the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was unfriendly to Trump and his interests. Trump immediately suggested Yovanovitch should be fired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-donor-dinner-giuliani-associate-said-he-discussed-ukraine-with-trump-according-to-people-familiar-with-his-account/2019/11/12/2a1f28e0-0558-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html
Some people go out to dinner; others skip dinner to make impeachment hearing flash cards.
https://twitter.com/jaconi/status/1194396029837365248
Gov. Ron DeSantis was scheduled to meet with a now-indicted Ukrainian American businessman and campaign donor days after he took office, an encounter his aides now say never occurred. DeSantis spokesperson Helen Aguirre Ferré said the governor was scheduled to meet with Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Jan. 18, 10 days after DeSantis took the oath of office. Ferré said the meeting — at a private terminal at the Palm Beach International Airport — was put on the governor’s calendar by the Republican Party of Florida, which was led at the time by Susie Wiles, a political strategist who had helped lead the DeSantis campaign and transition.
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/11/12/desantis-had-january-meeting-scheduled-with-giuliani-associate-1226794
I feel bad for Zelensky. The US yells, for years, at Ukraine to be less corrupt. Zelensky runs for President on an anti-corruption platform and wins. Then the US President asks him, corruptly, to do corrupt things. And crucial aid is withheld until he agrees to do it. Sheesh.
https://twitter.com/MargLTaylor/status/1194397621340778500
"Parnas’s attorneys have now indicated that he is disappointed with Trump’s efforts to distance himself, suggesting that he may be willing to cooperate with the congressional inquiry."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-donor-dinner-giuliani-associate-said-he-discussed-ukraine-with-trump-according-to-people-familiar-with-his-account/2019/11/12/2a1f28e0-0558-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html
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